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21. The PHILOSOPHIKA GNOMIKON.
III. The "Song of The Ten Heroes"
OUT OF THAT WATER A COUNTRY IS RISING, IMPOSSIBLE
WHEN FIRST IMAGINED IN PRAYER.
- Amarvir, "Crysania's Song"
For the dedicated reader, I would suggest the following
procedure as the most effective way to understand the
argument that follows: Go out immediately and buy three
more copies of this book. Read the poem from the copy you
have at hand, my comments (which follow the poem) from
the second copy, and reserve the other two copies on a high
shelf in case the waters rise in your living quarters or study,
for there are mages aplenty left in Krynn (even if old
Sandglass-Eyes has gone Reorx knows where), and the
rising tides across the planet may not be the work of the
moons. Here then, the poem22 and commentary:
SONG OF THE TEN HEROES
From the north came danger, as we knew it would: 1
In the vanguard of winter, a dragon's dance
Unraveled the land, until out of the forest,
Out of the plains they came, from the mothering earth,
The sky unreckoned before them. 5
NINE THEY WERE, UNDER THE THREE MOONS,
UNDER THE AUTUMN TWILIGHT:
AS THE WORLD DECLINED, THEY AROSE
INTO THE HEART OF THE STORY
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